About Me

Mom to six great kids, Boo is 11, Robby 14 years, Ace is 15, Miss Busy is 18 and got married in October, Chels is 20 and Gadget-Boy,(who lives in Texas with his bride and my adorable grand daughter.)
Married to my best friend, Bear for nearly 31 years.
(I don't use real names for OpSec reasons.) So if you know my family personally, please refrain from using their real names in any comments you may post.
I'm into quilting, scrapbooking, preserving history, writing in my journal, cross stitch, sewing for my kids when I have the time, cooking, canning, freezing and otherwise "putting up" everything I can get my hands on in the summer so we can eat good in the winter.

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Saturday, March 1, 2008

Not Much of a Break

I think I may have figured out my computer problem. My hard drive was at 80% of full and it just kept crashing because it didn't have enough space to move around.

I purchased an external hard drive and loaded all my photos on it and then cleaned out duplicate files and defragged, and ran scan disk utilities. I felt so "techie" that I was able to do it without my Computer Whiz of a husband around. (Good training, I suppose.)

I still have to reload a virus software, but I'm safe now, no threat of lost photos or files. I have multiple backups, both on CD and on my EHD.

For anyone who cares, I use a wonderful program called Memory Manager from Creative Memories, I am a consultant and I've used this wonderful program for about 2 years now. With it, you can edit photos, crop, recolor, name them, write stories about them and then transfer them into another program called Storybook Creator and make beautiful hardbound scrapbooks. It is so much fun to play with.

OK, enough of the shameless plug, just wanted to let you know I'm back, can't live without my computer, so that was the first thing on my list to fix yesterday.

I had a wonderful post about putting together the compost tumbler with the kids. Chels and Miss Busy both took turns at the camera, and got some really cute pictures. I'll get that all together and post later today or tomorrow.

Bye for now, gotta go read my 3 chapters in Joshua. Out of Deuteronomy, that was tough reading!

UFO's in 2010

This is my list of Un-Finished Objects to complete this year. I won't say that I'm not starting anything else until this is done, because I'm just not that kind of girl. I need someting new to keep me interested. I work on lots of things at a time, sometimes I'm appliqueing, hand quilting, piecing, machine quilting, sewing non-quilt projects. So this will (hopefully) keep me on track.

Zeller Pinwheel Quilt

Thanksgiving Turkey wall-hanging

Christmas Cookie Nativity Calendar

Butterfly wallhanging

Red, green, crazy "Quilt as you go" throw

Beary Wonky Cabins for Robby

Jewels of Kansas Signature quilt

Christmas Quilt BOM

2009 Thimbleberries BOM

Army "Thimbleberries" BOM for Bear

Marine "Thimbleberries" BOM

Double Knit Poly "snuggle" quilt for Ace

Double Knit Poly "snuggle" quilt for Chels

Brother Memorial Quilt

I'll check them off as I complete them. This will help keep me accountable.